Category:Wikinews

Wikinews [No WikiNode] [No About] Language: Multilingual Engine: MediaWiki Main topic: News Wiki license: Creative Commons Attribution

Wikinews skeleton logo

Wikinews is a collection of wiki websites which present up-to-date, relevant, newsworthy and entertaining content; without bias, with content that is written by the volunteer Wikinews editors. A project of the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), all content is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License (CC-BY 2.5), which makes the Wikinews content perpetually available for free redistribution and use.

As of March 2013, Wikimedia Meta-Wiki indicates that there are 33 Wikinews versions in different languages, with the Serbian version being the largest with over 70,000 articles, followed by the English version just shy of 20,000 articles. New language versions are added when there is significant support for said language. Meta-Wiki historical article new language pre-launch documents the evolution of some of the various language versions of Wikinews, and Meta-Wiki requests for new languages illustrates the process for all Wikimedia Foundation projects. Just like the convention of other WMF projects such as Wikipedia, each Wikinews language version is a sub-domain under the Wikinews.org domain. The Japanese Wikinews, for example, is at https://ja.Wikinews.org.[1]

• www.Wikinews.org — Wikinews portal to all language versions
• Wikinews — at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
• Wikinews Statistics — Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
• Wikiscan Wikinews statistics — independent statistics site on Wikipedia and other wikis hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, at Wikiscan.org
• Wikinews Interactive Statistics — from Wikistatistics.net
• List of Wikinews — from WikiStats by S23.org
• Wikinews database list — at noc.Wikimedia.org
• Wikinews.org site info — from Alexa.com
• Wikinews at Everything2.com — a personal commentary by Tempestas on Wikinews policies and issues

All Wikinews in these languages: ^{(view / edit)}

10,000+: Deutsch (de), English (en), Français (fr), Polski (pl), Serbian (sr)
1,000+: العربية / Arabic (ar), Catalan (ca), Chinese (zh), Czech (cs), Greek (el), Español (es), Persian (fa), Finnish (fi), עברית / Hebrew (he), Italiano (it), Japanese (ja), Nederlands (nl), Português (pt), Română (ro), Russian (ru), Swedish / Svenska (sv), Tamil (ta), Turkish (tr)
100+: Albanian (sq), Български / Bulgarian (bg), Bosnian (bs), Esperanto (eo), Hungarian (hu), Korean (ko), Norsk (no), Sindhi (sd), ไทย / Thai (th), Ukrainian (uk)

The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (WMF), founded 20 June 2003, is the wiki company and non-profit charitable organization responsible for a very large number (over 900 in total) of very active wikis, grouped together and known as 'projects'; as well as the wiki engine software initially developed by themselves, known as MediaWiki. The Foundations' major wiki projects include Wikipedia (encyclopedias), Wiktionary (dictionary and thesaurus), Wikiquote (quotations), Wikibooks (open content textbooks), Wikisource (free content primary and secondary source texts), Wikinews (news source), Wikiversity (open learning community), Wikispecies (free species directory), and many others as listed below. Most of these projects have separate wiki versions written in many different languages. There is also the Wikimedia Commons (shared repository for documents, images, videos, and other media files), Wikidata (central space knowledge base for data used on all WMF projects), and the Wikimedia Meta-Wiki (coordination of issues common to all Wikimedia projects). The Foundations' global reach is nurtured in its Incubator, where all new language versions for all projects are initiated and developed before being rolled out. Its most recent major project, Wikivoyage (a 'travelpedia'), was inducted to WMF in late 2012.

Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a member of the Open Source Initiative.

All Wikimedia Foundation projects, wikis, and portals ^{(view / edit) • (category)}

Wikipedia • Wiktionary • Wikiquote • Wikibooks • Wikisource • Wikinews • Wikiversity • Wikispecies • MediaWiki.org • Wikidata • Commons • Wikivoyage • Meta-Wiki • Incubator • Labs • Wikitech • Chapters • Wikimania • Outreach • Toolserver • Toolforge • Statistics • Phabricator • Beta Cluster • Downloads • Analytics • Software Releases • Documentation • Blog • Shop • Donate • Login

original Wikimedia Foundation logo from 2003

subsequent Wikimedia Foundation logo

Wikimedia Foundation private and management wikis

Board • BoardGovCom • Foundation Governance • Office • Executive • Internal • Affiliations Committee • OTRS • Collab • Movement Roles • Audit Committee • Search Committee • Advisory Board • Quality • Usability Initiative • Strategic Planning • SP-Com • Stewards • CheckUser • Advisors

External links

• www.Wikimedia.org — portal to all of the major WMF projects
• Wikimedia Foundation Vision — at the WikimediaFoundation.org blog
• Wikimedia Foundation - Terms of Use — at the Wikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki, at Foundation.Wikimedia.org
• WikimediaFoundation.org — original public wiki of Wikimedia Foundation, closed July 2018
• Complete list of Wikimedia projects — at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
• Template:Table of Wikimedia projects — at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
• List of Wikimedia projects by size (sortable) — at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
• SiteMatrix table of all Wikimedia wikis — listed by language, project, inter-project link, and interwiki, at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki, along with list of all private and management wiki
• Toolserver: Wiki server assignments — formerly at Wikimedia Toolserver, now at MediaWiki.org
• Current status Wikimedia Foundation - Core services — public website health status for WMF, at Status.Wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Status
• Wikimedia Statistics – Wikistats – comprehensive statistics by project — Wikistats v1 (public domain) (final release, 31 January 2019) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
• Wikimedia Statistics – All wikis — Wikistats v2 (Creative Commons CC0), Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
• Wikiscan statistics — independent statistics site on Wikipedia and other wikis hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, at Wikiscan.org
• Database dump progress — list of live database dumps at Wikimedia Downloads, at Dumps.Wikimedia.org
• Wikimedia Interactive Statistics^{[dead link]} — from Wikistatistics.net – archived spapshot from archive.is
• Special Wikimedia Projects by size — sortable list from WikiStats by S23.org (last updated 11 September 2011, but still useful information)
• plain-text database list — at NOC.Wikimedia.org, Wikimedia NOC
• Wikimedia Grid Report — multiple detailed performance graphs from Ganglia.Wikimedia.org
• Phabricator — formerly Bugzilla.Wikimedia.org, now Phabricator.Wikimedia.org, for bug reporting, tracking, and software development
• Public Mailing Lists — at Lists.Wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Lists
• Wikimedia.org site info — from Alexa.com
• Wikipediocracy — an extensive highly detailed WordPress blog and internet forum exposing the light of scrutiny into the dark crevices of Wikipedia and its related Wikimedia projects

Further reading

• Bell, Dan (editor) (August 2009); The Wiki Handbook: THE How To on Wiki, Complete Expert's hints and tips guide by the leading experts, everything you need to know about Wiki; [2]; Emereo Publishing; ISBN 1742441661; paperback; 140 pages.